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Jazz fusion
Jazz fusion is a musical fusion genre that developed from mixing funk and R&B rhythms and the amplification and electronic effects of rock, complex time signatures derived from non-Western music and extended, typically instrumental compositions with a jazz approach to lengthy group improvisations,...
and hard bop
Hard bop
Hard bop is a style of jazz that is an extension of bebop music. Journalists and record companies began using the term in the mid-1950s to describe a new current within jazz which incorporated influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues, especially in the saxophone and piano...
saxophonist.
Grossman was notably Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.He is generally acknowledged to be jazz's greatest living composer, and many of his compositions have become standards...
's replacement in Miles Davis
Miles Davis
Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz,...
' jazz-fusion band. Then, from 1971 to 1973, he was in Elvin Jones
Elvin Jones
Elvin Ray Jones was a jazz drummer of the post-bop era. He showed interest in drums at a young age, watching the circus bands march by his family's home in Pontiac, Michigan....
's band.
In the late 1970s, he was part of the Stone Alliance trio with Don Alias
Don Alias
Charles 'Don' Alias was an American jazz percussionist.Alias was best known for playing congas and other hand drums...
and Gene Perla
Gene Perla
Gene Perla is an American jazz bassist.Perla studied piano at the Berklee School of Music and the Boston Conservatory before switching to bass...
. The group released four albums during this period, including one featuring Brazilian trumpeter Márcio Montarroyos
Márcio Montarroyos
Márcio Montarrotos was a Brazilian trumpet player.Starting his studies with classical piano, he later went to trumpet and jazz.In the 70's, he traveled to USA, to study at Berklee School of Music.1988 the Swiss TV invited Montarroyos to produce two one- Hour Concerts together with the german guitar...
. The albums also feature an array of other musicians. They went on to release 3 live reunion albums during the 2000s.Allmusic
As leader
- 1973: Some Shapes to Come with Don AliasDon AliasCharles 'Don' Alias was an American jazz percussionist.Alias was best known for playing congas and other hand drums...
, Jan HammerJan HammerJan Hammer is a composer, pianist and keyboardist. He first gained his most visible audience while playing keyboards with the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the early 1970s, as well as his film scores for television and film including "Miami Vice Theme" and "Crockett's Theme", from the popular 1980s...
, Gene Perla - 1977: Born at the Same Time with Patrice Caratini, Michel GraillierMichel GraillierMichel Graillier was a French jazz pianist, born 18 October 1946 in Lens , died 11 February 2003 in Paris.- Biography :From four to eighteen years of age, Michel Graillier studied classical piano in Lens...
, Daniel HumairDaniel HumairDaniel Humair is a drummer, jazz composer and painter.He is widely renowned and became Chevalier des Arts et Lettres in 1986.He has played with many jazz performers notably Martial Solal, Gerry Mulligan and Eric Dolphy.... - 1978: New Moon Musica RecordsMusica Records-Discography:...
- 1984: Way Out East Vol 1 & 2 with Juini Booth, Joe ChambersJoe ChambersJoe Chambers is an American jazz drummer, pianist, vibraphonist and composer. He attended the Philadelphia Conservatory for one year. In the 1960s and 70s Chambers gigged with many high-profile artists such as Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, Lou Donaldson, Chick Corea, Freddie Hubbard, Jimmy Giuffre...
- 1984: Hold the Line with Juini Booth, Hugh LawsonHugh Lawson (jazz pianist)Hugh Lawson , was one of many talented Detroit jazz pianists of the 1950s ....
, Masahiro Yoshida - 1985: Love Is The Thing with Billy HigginsBilly HigginsBilly Higgins was an American jazz drummer. He played mainly free jazz and hard bop.Higgins was born in Los Angeles, California. Higgins played on Ornette Coleman's first records, beginning in 1958...
, Cedar WaltonCedar WaltonCedar Anthony Walton, Junior is an American hard bop jazz pianist.-Biography:Walton grew up in Dallas, Texas. His mother was an aspiring concert pianist, and was Walton's initial teacher. She also took him to jazz performances around Dallas...
, David Williams - 1985: Steve Grossman Quartet Vol 1 & 2
- 1985: Standards with Walter BookerWalter BookerWalter Booker was an American jazz musician. A native of Prairie View, Texas, Booker was a reliable bass player and an underrated stylist. His playing was marked by voice-like inflections, glissandos and tremolo techniques.-Biography:Booker moved with his family to Washington, D.C. in the mid 1940s...
, Fred Henke, Masahiro Yoshida - 1986: Katonah
- 1989: Bouncing with Mr. A.T., with Tyler Mitchell, Art TaylorArt TaylorArthur S. Taylor, Jr. was an American jazz drummer of the hard bop school.After playing in the bands of Howard McGhee, Coleman Hawkins, Buddy DeFranco, Bud Powell, and George Wallington from 1948 to 1957, he formed his own group, the Wailers...
- 1990: Moon Train
- 1990: Reflections
- 1990: My Second Prime
- 1991: Do It with Barry HarrisBarry HarrisBarry Doyle Harris is an American bebop jazz pianist and educator.-Biography:Harris left Detroit for New York City in 1960...
, Reggie Johnson, Art Taylor - 1991: In New York with Avery SharpeAvery SharpeAvery Sharpe is an American jazz double-bassist.Sharpe began playing piano at age eight and also studied accordion in his youth. He learned both electric and acoustic bass as a teenager, then studied with Reggie Workman at the University of Massachusetts...
, Art Taylor, McCoy TynerMcCoy TynerMcCoy Tyner is a jazz pianist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet and a long solo career.-Early life:... - 1993: Time to Smile with Tom HarrellTom HarrellTom Harrell is a renowned American post-bop jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer and arranger.-Biography:Tom Harrell was born in Urbana, Illinois but moved to the San Francisco Bay Area at the age of five. He started playing trumpet at eight and within five years, started playing gigs with...
, Elvin Jones, Cecil McBeeCecil McBeeCecil McBee is an American post bop jazz bassist, described by the Guinness Who's Who of Jazz as "a full-toned bassist who creates rich, singing phrases in a wide range of contemporary jazz contexts." Allmusic called him "One of post-bop's most advanced and versatile bassists".-Biography:McBee...
, Willie Pickens - 1992: I'm Confessin with Jimmy CobbJimmy Cobb-External links:* - includes full discography* * * * * * *...
, Fred Henke, Reggie Johnson, Harold LandHarold LandHarold de Vance Land was an American hard bop and post-bop tenor saxophonist. Land developed his hard bop playing with the Max Roach/Clifford Brown band into a personal, modern style. His tone was strong and emotional, yet displayed a certain fragility that made him easy to... - 1993: Small Hotel with Billy Higgins, Cedar Walton, David Williams
- 1998: Steve Grossman Quartet with Michael Petrucciani with Joe FarnsworthJoe FarnsworthJoseph Allen "Joe" Farnsworth is an American jazz drummer.Farnsworth was one of five sons born to trumpeter and bandleader Roger Farnsworth; one of Joe Farnsworth's brothers played saxophone in Ray Charles's band. He attended High School in Jakarta International School in Jakarta, Indonesia...
, Andy McKeeAndy McKeeAndy McKee is an American fingerstyle guitarist, currently signed to the American record label .His style of playing and his compositions have earned him a considerable international fanbase...
, Michel PetruccianiMichel PetruccianiMichel Petrucciani was a French jazz pianist.-Biography:... - 2000: Live: Cafe Praga
- 2000: Johnny Griffin & Steve Grossman Quintet with Johnny GriffinJohnny GriffinJohn Arnold Griffin III was an American bop and hard bop tenor saxophonist.- Early life and career :Griffin studied music at DuSable High School in Chicago under Walter Dyett, starting out on clarinet before moving on to oboe and then alto sax...
, Michael WeissMichael Weiss (composer)Michael David Weiss , is a jazz pianist and composer best known for his fifteen year association with saxophonist Johnny Griffin....
, Pierre MichelotPierre MichelotPierre Michelot was a French bebop and hard bop double bass player.Born in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris, Michelot studied piano from 1936 until 1938, but switched to playing bass at the age of sixteen...
, Alvin Queen - 2006: The Bible with Don Alias Bongos, Jan Hammer, Gene Perla
- 2006: Terre Firma
As sideman
With Miles DavisMiles Davis
Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz,...
- Big Fun (1968)
- Live-Evil (1970)
- Get Up with ItGet Up with ItGet Up with It is an album collecting tracks recorded between 1970 and 1974 by Miles Davis. Released on November 22, 1974 as a double LP, it was Davis' last studio album before five years of retirement from music....
(1970) - A Tribute to Jack JohnsonA Tribute to Jack JohnsonA Tribute to Jack Johnson is a studio album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released February 24, 1971 on Columbia Records. It also serves as the soundtrack for a documentary by Bill Cayton about the heavyweight world champion boxer Jack Johnson....
(1970) - Black Beauty: Live at the Fillmore WestBlack Beauty: Live at the Fillmore WestBlack Beauty: Miles Davis at Fillmore West is a live album by American jazz recording artist Miles Davis, recorded on April 10, 1970 at the Fillmore West in San Francisco...
(1970) - Miles Davis at Fillmore: Live at the Fillmore EastMiles Davis at Fillmore: Live at the Fillmore EastAt Fillmore is a 1970 live album by jazz trumpeter Miles Davis and band, recorded at the Fillmore East, New York City on four consecutive days, June 17 through June 20, 1970, originally released as a double vinyl LP.The live performances were heavily edited by...
(1970)
With Elvin Jones
Elvin Jones
Elvin Ray Jones was a jazz drummer of the post-bop era. He showed interest in drums at a young age, watching the circus bands march by his family's home in Pontiac, Michigan....
- Merry-Go-RoundMerry-Go-Round (album)Merry-Go-Round is an album by American jazz drummer Elvin Jones recorded in 1971 and released on the Blue Note label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 3 stars stating "the music is generally quite worthwhile, if a bit eclectic.....
(Blue Note, 1971) - Mr. JonesMr. Jones (Elvin Jones album)Mr. Jones is an album by American jazz drummer Elvin Jones recorded in 1972 and released on the Blue Note label.-Reception:The Allmusic review awarded the album 4½ stars.-Track listing:# "One's Native Place" - 6:14# "Gee Gee" - 5:45# "Mr...
(Blue Note, 1972) - Live at the LighthouseLive at the Lighthouse (Elvin Jones album)Live at the Lighthouse is a live album by jazz drummer Elvin Jones featuring performances recorded in 1972 at the Lighthouse Club in California and released on the Blue Note label...
(Blue Note, 1972) - At This Point in TimeAt This Point in TimeAt This Point In Time is a 1973 jazz album by an eleven-piece ensemble led by Elvin Jones. Tracks 1 to 4 were first issued on the double album The Prime Element , while tracks 5 to 7 were previously unreleased...
(Blue Note, 1973)
External links
- [ Allmusic]
- Stone Alliance Discogs